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dankamongmen / panelreels

high-level objects built atop ncurses
https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Outcurses
Apache License 2.0
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Improve appearance on console #9

Open dankamongmen opened 5 years ago

dankamongmen commented 5 years ago

We look fanfuckingtastic in most terminal emulators (on dark backgrounds, anyway), but we look like shit on the linux console. It has very strict color and font limitations. We need to detect this case and go with something much less aggressive. We should probably make this fallback available to users in the sure case of retarded terminal emulators, as well.

dankamongmen commented 4 years ago

For one, make sure we're using a linux-16color TERM. By default, we only get 8 colors (and usually 8 bold variants thereof).

dankamongmen commented 4 years ago

Wait, if there are only 8 colors, how is links on my arch console displaying pictures with pretty good colors? Need to investigate this. It's definitely not running fbterm...